The wreck of a British cargo ship containing silver worth £155 million, sunk by a German U-boat during the Second World War, has been discovered in Atlantic. The SS Gairsoppa set sail from India in December 1940 carrying 240 tonnes of silver, iron and tea

A British couple whose yacht was sinking under them after it hit an iceberg in a South Atlantic storm have spoken for the first time about how they feared they and their daughters were about to drown - just before being plucked from the ocean in a

A 49-year-old woman held onto a water container to stay afloat for 19 hours until she was rescued from choppy ocean waters just over 1.5 kilometres off Maui. A fishing charter boat spotted her in the water Friday morning and rescued her. Lucky her!